Woopa!! Cbr1000rr Riders

[hideto09]

anyone of u seen e service manual for cbr1000rr? got one and its like 586 pgs of info packed for e rr4...with all torque readings and stuff u need to know about ur bike....

[jerryGSR]

Originally posted by afdah@Aug 21 2004, 03:54 PM

hi, care to elaborate more on your tank bra? i intend 2 put 1 next month.

sliders, u can use shogun. take note that drilling of fairing is required.

my tank bra brand is bagster..... all black, but u can order wif other colours 2 suit ur bike.... i got it frm moto world at $165.... can discount wan...... i seen sliders at moto world.... oso need 2 drill hole.... i ask wif motovation, they last update me say dun haf 4 cbr1000

[afdah]

Originally posted by Tashi@Aug 21 2004, 04:03 PM

I've seen a particular brand of sliders that don't require drilling. It's made speciafically for the RR4, but I can't remember which brand.

if it does not requires drilling at my fairings, i confirm put one. try to remember ah...

[afdah]

Originally posted by Tashi@Aug 21 2004, 04:05 PM

I hope you're still using minerals.

yes, i'm still on minerals

[afdah]

Originally posted by hideto09@Aug 21 2004, 04:37 PM

wat did u do for ur 1000km service? plugs, oil, oil filter? hope u're still using mineral...

oil and oil filter change only. spark plug never change...

[Ken]

just put ER frame sliders, creation swingarm protector/spools, hel brake & clutch steel braided hose.

 

ER frame sliders is the mushroom type and got drill holes.

 

take note that as our fairing had covered the hole which can put on the sliders so is a must to drill holes.

 

if ur sliders is not put on the frame and just add a bracket or just attach to the fairings, then if u just drop ur bike which is like forgot to put sidestand then is okie. but if is travelling and when corner n buang, ur whole fairings will also go together with the sliders.

 

Also change to white lights. which i find is more brighter and striking.

[hideto09]

Originally posted by Ken@Aug 21 2004, 06:34 PM

just put RD frame sliders, creation swingarm protector/spools, hel brake & clutch steel braided hose.

 

RD frame sliders is the mushroom type and got drill holes.

 

take note that as our fairing had covered the hole which can put on the sliders so is a must to drill holes.

 

if ur sliders is not put on the frame and just add a bracket or just attach to the fairings, then if u just drop ur bike which is like forgot to put sidestand then is okie. but if is travelling and when corner n buang, ur whole fairings will also go together with the sliders.

where u get e swingarm slider/spools from?

and ur steel braided clutch cable?

[Ken]

all at Sporting Motorcycles.

 

After installing the steel braided clutch cable, the transittion of the bike is very much smoother than the normal 1 especially the 1st gear.

 

the braking feels oso improve in terms of more predictable.

as it is now 2 cable rather than the stock cable which is go to the right side then go to the left side, which results in a sudden brake when the left brake is activated.

[jerryGSR]

Originally posted by Ken@Aug 21 2004, 11:44 PM

all at Sporting Motorcycles.

 

After installing the steel braided clutch cable, the transittion of the bike is very much smoother than the normal 1 especially the 1st gear.

 

the braking feels oso improve in terms of more predictable.

as it is now 2 cable rather than the stock cable which is go to the right side then go to the left side, which results in a sudden brake when the left brake is activated.

then where 2 get them? i interested 2 get it fix on my bike

[chilly]

Lots of info on 1000rr

 

 

1000 RR

[Tashi]

RR4 with Yoshi RS-5 slip-on. Video with sound.

 

http://207.150.192.12/temp/summerfu/MOV00069.MPG

[Tashi]

Originally posted by hideto09@Aug 21 2004, 04:41 PM

anyone of u seen e service manual for cbr1000rr? got one and its like 586 pgs of info packed for e rr4...with all torque readings and stuff u need to know about ur bike....

Where did you get it? Chilly was just mentioning a service manual that's over 300MB in pdf. Can post link?

[Tashi]

Originally posted by Ken@Aug 21 2004, 06:34 PM

just put ER frame sliders, creation swingarm protector/spools, hel brake & clutch steel braided hose.

 

ER frame sliders is the mushroom type and got drill holes.

 

take note that as our fairing had covered the hole which can put on the sliders so is a must to drill holes.

 

if ur sliders is not put on the frame and just add a bracket or just attach to the fairings, then if u just drop ur bike which is like forgot to put sidestand then is okie. but if is travelling and when corner n buang, ur whole fairings will also go together with the sliders.

 

Also change to white lights. which i find is more brighter and striking.

How much did you pay for the bulb? I did notice it's much whiter.

 

The stock bulb is already very bright actually.

 

Did you change the high beam as well?

[hideto09]

Originally posted by Tashi@Aug 22 2004, 01:04 PM

Where did you get it? Chilly was just mentioning a service manual that's over 300MB in pdf. Can post link?

think chilly is refering to wat i got as well...here's e link...

CBR1000RR Service Manual & Complete Parts Catalog go and c under CBR Stuff to download...

if not working let me know....i'm on broadband:cheeky:

thinking of printing it out....but wow 586pgs...not cost efficient on my home printer...anybody any lobang for print PDF files???

[chilly]

Originally posted by hideto09@Aug 22 2004, 02:19 PM

think chilly is refering to wat i got as well...here's e link...

CBR1000RR Service Manual & Complete Parts Catalog go and c under CBR Stuff to download...

if not working let me know....i'm on broadband:cheeky:

thinking of printing it out....but wow 586pgs...not cost efficient on my home printer...anybody any lobang for print PDF files???

Yup,that's the link alright ! But the SERVICE MANUAL link seems corrupted though.No prob with with the PARTS CATALOG.I download the SERVICE MANUAL from another link.

[chilly]

1000rr PC III USB POWER COMMANDER installation guide in PDF.

 

 

PC III USB ( 1000rr) installation guide

[Ken]

Originally posted by hershey7855@Aug 22 2004, 01:53 AM

then where 2 get them? i interested 2 get it fix on my bike

All at Sporting.

[Ken]

Originally posted by Tashi@Aug 22 2004, 01:15 PM

How much did you pay for the bulb? I did notice it's much whiter.

 

The stock bulb is already very bright actually.

 

Did you change the high beam as well?

the stock bulb is bright but not striking enough to catch the attention of the vehicle infront. the stock bulb is yellow enough, but not bright enough.

bulb is purchased in a pair.

[Tashi]

Originally posted by hideto09@Aug 22 2004, 02:19 PM

think chilly is refering to wat i got as well...here's e link...

CBR1000RR Service Manual & Complete Parts Catalog go and c under CBR Stuff to download...

if not working let me know....i'm on broadband:cheeky:

thinking of printing it out....but wow 586pgs...not cost efficient on my home printer...anybody any lobang for print PDF files???

Got it, thanks. 2 hrs to download on broadband.

[Tashi]

Originally posted by Ken@Aug 22 2004, 09:15 PM

the stock bulb is bright but not striking enough to catch the attention of the vehicle infront. the stock bulb is yellow enough, but not bright enough.

bulb is purchased in a pair.

Maybe you haven't overtaken an RR4 before.

 

When you or Chilly were behind me, the stock light is so bright, shines right into my eyes.

[Tashi]

A CBR1000RR Story (A nice read)

 

 

The man behind the latest Honda Fireblade is 40-year-old Kyoichi Yoshii, assistant chief engineer at Honda's design facility in Asaka, project leader from the inception of the seventh-generation CBR until the final pre-production prototype was approved for volume production at the main factory - it took nearly three years.

 

During that time the design team went through five engines and more than 30 frames – and Yoshii-san, a hands-on development engineer, claims to have ridden all of them!

 

He normally spends at least three afternoons a week on the Asaka test circuit in summer and one in winter, despite outdoor temperatures below freezing.

 

The slogan for the CBR1000RR project was "Total control" and, while engines can be developed to a large extent on the test bench, handling can only be refined out on the track.

 

Often the changes from one frame to the next were minute - a matter of cut-and-weld, a couple of millimetres here and there, a process of constant refinement rather than broad innovation.

 

All Honda products are essentially designed by committees, which is why they are often criticised as being bland or lacking character, but there is something of Yoshii in this one, something of the European design ethos whereby a bike is designed as a package and must eventually be approved by just one person.

 

When speaking of his work, Yoshii-san never says "I", always "we", referring to the team of perhaps a dozen engineers and technicians who collaborated on the prototypes.

 

He explained that a Honda was never designed for peak performance – rather built to appeal to the mythical "average sports rider", a profile built up by three generations of market research into motorcyclists and what makes them buy Hondas.

 

He says bluntly that this is not the bike that he would have designed for himself – that would not have been be tolerated by the Honda hierarchy. It was designed according to the company's ideas of what riders like you and me want.

 

By Western standards Yoshii is a company man to his back teeth; he is super-conservative in his approach - so much so that he would get nowhere in a European design house – yet at Honda he is regarded as a maverick.

 

After a few drinks he let slip that his boss once said to him "You are dangerous!"

 

If so, Honda R&D could do with a few more dangerous guys.

 

Kyoichi Yoshii grew up around motorcycles; his father and uncle were partners in a Honda dealership. Bike design, he says, didn't mean a lot to him until one day in his mid-teens when he chanced on an old pamphlet for a Honda CB400F and was struck by the minimalist simplicity of the design.

 

"That's how bikes should be," he says.

 

When he left college he was approached by carburettor specialists Kei Hin but turned them down to take a more junior post at Honda so that he could help design bikes like the CB400F. Eighteen years later he is just two steps away from the top post at Asaka – a meteoric rise by Japanese standards.

 

His personal transport is one of just 23 hand-made "TT100" replica, modified Honda CBR900RR's built in England to commemorate Honda's 100th Isle of Man TT victory in 1998. Yoshii was on assignment at Honda Germany at the time and when he returned to the Home Islands he took the priceless special with him.

 

Bikes are made to be ridden

 

Motorcycles, no matter how rare, are made to be ridden, not displayed, he says; he rides this one, the only TT100 in Japan, to work and back every day, rain or shine. His weekend sports-bike is probably the most un-Japanese bike in existence.

 

It's a Bimota DB1, a bespoke chassis built in Rimini near Venice and powered by a Ducati 750SS V-twin motor. He doesn't own a car, although he has a van to take his race bikes to the track.

 

His hero is Massimo Tamburini, who began as the "ta" in Bimota and was later responsible for the iconic Ducati 916; he says Tamburini is the world master at designing great sports motorcycles for the market – and the success of the 916 supports that statement!

 

Yoshii was in Mpumalanga for the South African launch of the CBR1000RR and he rode with journalists over wonderful biking roads of the region, seeing for himself just what hooligans real-life bikers are – and doing some hooliganising of his own, including a perfectly controlled 200m wheelie and some of the slickest up-the-inside overtaking I've yet seen.

 

Company man or no, there was a distinct note of personal pride in his voice when he said that his experiences on the roads in South Africa confirmed that the latest Fireblade delivers exactly what he set out to achieve – total control.

 

There's a popular perception that Japanese motorcycle engineers are inscrutable little gnomes with about as much feeling as the industrial robots they employ to build the bikes.

 

I found out instead that at least one of them is not only a real person – he's a righteous biker as well.

 

Yoshii San Pic 1

 

Yoshii San Pic 2

[Ken]

Originally posted by Tashi@Aug 23 2004, 03:17 PM

Maybe you haven't overtaken an RR4 before.

 

When you or Chilly were behind me, the stock light is so bright, shines right into my eyes.

ur mirror angle is too high rite.

hehehe:cheeky:

[afdah]

anyone know where to buy the seat cowl? i'm referring to the piece of plastic to replace the pillion seat to make it look like a single seater.

 

anyone know where to buy the tank protector. i dun 1 the carbon fiber look design. i 1 either the cbr or honda wording on it.

some designs like the below url

http://www.keiti.com/product_tank-ho.htm

[Ken]

seat crowl think find motorworld bah.

 

tank protector, mine got CBR wording, purchased at chiap lee.

[ideal1970]

hi guy,

 

need so info from this forum.. can advice.. for 2k less, will anyone get a parallel import bike instead of BoonSiew... What's the catch for parallel import bike..